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Musicians Cry Foul Over Ghana
Music Awards Festival 2007 |
For seven
years running, the Ghana Music Awards Festival has
become the most glamorous musical event on the
entertainment calendar.
This started as a day's event but has now grown into a
musical festival which is celebrated before the end of
the first quarter of every year hence the name "Ghana
Music Awards Festival".
Organized by Charter House since its inception, this
award has been designed to appreciate and reward
musicians who have excelled within the period of
contention.
Though the production of the event improves every year,
some of the musicians who this event is meant for, do
not seem to be happy with their placements in the
categorization process and some other occurrences.
This year's edition of the Ghana Music Awards Festival
2007, dubbed "The Golden Jubilee Edition: was launched
on Thursday March 29 at the Coconut Groove Regency Hotel
to officially outdoor the event and to openly uncover
the various categories and its nominees.
Unlike last year or any other year, what was known as
the media launch has been changed into a launch party,
the Gospel fest (Gospel Rock Show) which was part of
last years activities have been taken off due to poor
attendance and the date of the event has been shifted
from the traditional March to May because of the
Ghana@50 celebrations and engagements. Significantly,
the public voting process has changed from the postage
system to SMS texting via mobile phone.
Already there are matters arising on the upcoming event.
According to Kofi B, who refused to go to the stage when
all the nominees were called to come on stage, he does
not understand why the only song which was nominated
from his well packed album titled "The return of Kofi
'B'" was "Akua Ataa" even though songs like "Koforidua
flowers", "Sika Adwa", "Come back" and other songs on
the same album are equally good or event better and
popular.
Kofi said he had this same painful experience with the
awards, when he released "Mobrowa". Though Kofi hadn't
seen the best music video category yet, he made it clear
that he will be very surprised if his "Akua Ataa" video
is not nominated or better still does not win the award
for that category.
Meanwhile Castro of OM Studios who is also the manager
for Praye said he is rather shocked with the turnout of
events with respect to Praye's nomination and the song
that was nominated. Explaining; Castro said Praye
released an album titled "The Bomb" which has popular
songs like "Whats your problem", "Jacket", and "My wife"
which undoubtedly falls within the year in contention
but unfortunately did not get any nomination with this
album.
Rather a single Praye did on the Appietus compilation
titled "Makoma" has been nominated in all the hiplife
categories. "This means the real album of my boys have
been ignored though it qualifies which automatically
implies that they have been denied of the hiplife album
of the year and other categories they deserver with
their own album. I think this is a blander that will
forever make the awards questionable if not corrected",
Praye's manager emphasized.
In Samini's camp, they do not agree with the organizers
for choosing "Odo" as a reggae song for the reggae song
of the year category,
According to his management "Odo" is not a reggae song,
the only reggae song on his "Samini" album is "Music"
which features A. B.
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| Culled from Weekly Fylla |
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